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  1. Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
  2. Call to non-cooperation with IFHP cuts launched in Toronto
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Health care workers and other service providers refuse to comply with restrictions to the refugee health program and call for action.
  3. Canada After Harper
    His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
  4. Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say Watchdogs
    Four needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
  5. The Canadian Election and the Global Climate Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The environmental stands of all the main parties in this election amount to climate change denial.
  6. Class Warfare
    The Assault on Canada's School

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
  7. Critical Perspectives on the Constitution
    Volume 2

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    This collection includes essays on collective rights, resistance to patriation by First Nations chiefs, and Quebec education reform.
  8. Dismantling Democracy
    Stifling Debate and Dissent in Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
  9. Federal government continues to receive failing grade on issue of free expression
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For the third straight year, the federal government received failing grades from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in a report card on freedom of expression in Canada.
  10. Federalism and the French Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    An essay that discusses nationalism and the Quebec seperatist movement.
  11. GovernmentSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  12. Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
    The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
  13. Iroquois Caucus says budget falls short in meeting necessary needs
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The federal budget represents a missed opportunity by the Government of Canada to strengthen its relationship withFirst Nations, according to the Iroquois Caucus which represents seven Iroquois communities.
  14. 'It's a New Day': Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Now that Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have taken the helm, advocates have high hopes for a course correction on the environment and energy files. But after nearly a decade of working under hostile conditions, environmentalists need to make a course correction of their own if they want to effectively influence public policy, experts say.
  15. Last Stand of the Lubicon Cree
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  16. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
  17. Losing Toronto: How Olivia Chow and the left may be giving away an election
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    As we head into the Labour Day weekend that may be accurately deemed to be the start of the homestretch of Toronto's very long mayoral and council election season, the news is not good for leftists or progressives in the city.
  18. Lung Association working to make lung health federal election priority
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    This week The Lung Association will launch a national campaign to empower Canadians to advocate for action on lung health. Please visit www.lung.ca on Thursday for more details and make your voice heard.
  19. Migrant rights activists denounce Canada's Federal Government for stripping away Employment Insurance benefit for migrant workers
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Migrant worker advocates are angered and shocked to learn that the Federal Government is once again attacking one of Canada's most vulnerable populations.
  20. On the Take
    Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  21. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  22. Retreat From Governance
    Canada and the Continental-International Challenge

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  23. Seven Public Sector Myths
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Fact and fiction about the public sector.
  24. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
  25. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.

Experts on Federal Government in the Sources Directory

  1. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance


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